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I what you mean better, it is confusing because Xu Xin is still playing not just internationally.

It is a war of words, are those things really physical chemical or other "treatment", treatment being that which changes the playing characteristics of the rubber?

Chen Qi isnt on the team? XX could be for aure but he is older too, at the age od traditional retirement from CNT so no big questions there. Not everyone can age likr ML. I agree on FZD, I hopw his reward is on earth and not in heaven.

And of course, at that age for ZJK and ML (and XX), Wang Hao and Wang Liqin and Ma Lin and Chen Qi were still playing, largely shouldering responsibility in front of them... FZD, XX and ML have retired and WCQ and LSD are now the team leaders. No protection from the likes of ZQH, XYB, or XF.

His team lost all their matches. Looks like all the importa couldn't deliver a match.

https://www.youtube.com/live/hQ7Bn0_-XnU?si=Wt1NhCMGfx6bblLT Tanaka just beat Hao Shuai. Harimoto live vs Jang... maybe this is why they both lost early in Sweden...

Mostly for one of two reasons: 1. Some people like to follow rules and boosting is against the rules (or their intent) even if it is hard to test for and not directly tested for. In this case boosting can give a rubber properties it does not have when sold commercially and without special...

That'd probably a function of it being in Sweden. The European Teams champs in 2023 (or 2024) was similarly high quality, they just know how to set up the audio and coverage to give you great feeling of the action on TV and th rest probably follows to some degree from that anf the popularity...

There are definitely guys in/from Japan, China and Korea at a higher level than Dudu. Kaii Yoshida was the normal answer even when he wasn't on tour and was playing in a league in Europe.

Does it really matter? Not speaking to you in particular because you already know this but this nonsense is completely unfair to the players.

Fan Zhendong was not world #1 until he was 21. Fan is also arguably the greatest prodigy of all time (between him and Harimoto), so there is no shame in not being Fan Zhendong, but it is pretty ridiculous to expect a 20 year old to be the best/highest ranked player in the world and have no gaps.

I love that you brought this up, it is sitting right there in plain sight yet some people refuse to see it.

Its amazing how people never cut players slack for youth.

Who is winning WD if not China?

I believe it is very hard to beat a doubles team that contains WCQ. Xiang Peng or Chen Yuanyu or Lin Shidong as his doubles partner can make it work. He just doesn't play as much for obvious reasons.

When did WCQ get beaten on a doubles team? And Lin and Huang if they stay together will get better. Yes they are not certain and WCQ might not be able to play so many events. But they also need to let the players grow into their optimal form. This is especially true in doubles.

Huang and Lin are both young, I think you are setting the bar too high, they need more time to blend. Even WCQ and FZD lost to Karlsson and Falck the first time around (WTTC 2021). And their best doubles player WCQ isn't here.

Come on, cut him some home-crowd slack.

Maybe he is a transplant who didn't want to break through the cluttered CNT hierarchy...

Hong Kong is eternally grateful to fan @zeio for getting them to fix WCT's game or days like today would not be possible.